Canto
XVI
Gangster
Gospel
Canto XVI
Petrus Romanus
Why'm I Angry?!
Why'm I angry?!
Why're you crying!
Tissues flying!
Weeping, sighing
Gave up on trying
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To find the source of these raging emotions
With neurological potions
And psychiatric notions
Becoming legislative motions
To end Catholic devotions
No, I just can't explain
Why I just can't contain
This lyrical pain
That emits from my brain
Like I'm going insane
Unable to complain
About the way
In which I stay
Above the fray
'Oh yeah -- we say
You got to pray
Just to make it today'
With my new jack sway
Like I's Kid 'n Play
Or a spiritual deejay
That you don't even have to pay...
'Cuz dis type of sh*t happens every day!'
Insane in the Membrane
Not just the Blacks, but all segments of society benefit from minority rights. But if the tyranny of the majority can only be buffeted by the legal system, and if the legal system is premised on psychiatric methodology, then you might as well get Houston on the line because we have a problem! Law is not a technique; it is a belief system premised on some notion of ultimate reality and higher truth. Otherwise, you will have lawlessness (which is bad for minorities as well as the majority). But the angelic soldiers of the continental army would rather that we pursue happiness and the cause of liberty, which both God promised and their hallowed blood procured.
We were slaves to King George and King Cotton; will we now shirk our duty to our fathers and shrink from history, permitting ourselves to once again become ensnared by the yoke of science and the noose of psychiatry?
How can we fight Islamo-fascists abroad when we've got homo-fascists at home? How can we talk about 'freedom on the march' when we've got nihilism on the prowl? But the homo-terrorists have hijacked the definition of liberty and flown it into the twin towers of nihilism and death!
And what is the difference between freedom and nihilism? Choice!
Freedom makes a choice; Nihilism denies choice. To the extent that both oppose authority, both are libertine to some extent, but the similarity ends whereas freedom embraces a higher authority whilst nihilism abdicates the very notion of authority, including its own!
We don't have to reexamine the Book of Judges to see that where sodomy pervades, enemies invade (1 Kng 14:24-25)! Our enemies know who they are! They're not questioning themselves! They've got no fear in their hearts and no doubt in their minds! But wherever a house is divided, it cannot possibly stand against its foes:
I remember when I was with Special Forces. Seems a thousand centuries ago. We went into a camp to inoculate the children. We left the camp after we had inoculated the children for Polio, and this old man came running after us and he was crying. He couldn't see. We went back there and they had come and hacked off every inoculated arm. There they were in a pile. A pile of little arms.
And I remember... I... I... I cried. I wept like some grandmother. I wanted to tear my teeth out. I didn't know what I wanted to do. And I want to remember it. I never want to forget it. I never want to forget. And then I realized... like I was shot... like I was shot with a diamond... a diamond bullet right through my forehead. And I thought: My God... the genius of that. The genius. The will to do that. Perfect, genuine, complete, crystalline, pure.
And then I realized they were stronger than we. Because they could stand that these were not monsters. These were men... trained cadres. These men who fought with their hearts, who had families, who had children, who were filled with love... but they had the strength... the strength... to do that. If I had ten divisions of those men our troubles here would be over very quickly.
(Colonel Kurtz, Apocalypse Now)
We can't win this last great global conflict without any sense of who we are and where we're headed! We've gone from "loose lips sink ships" to "don't ask don't tell" when instead, we should be utilizing the gospel message to drive a wedge in their culture!
Shake up the bushes, and the snakes will crawl out! But instead, we are thrusting ourselves into the bushes blindfolded by political correctness -- and we will continue to stagnate there until we settle our moral debate!
POW*MIA
Fearless soldier, strong and brave
Now it's up to you to save
Uncle Sam is all you have
Buried in an unmarked grave
Fearless soldier, brave and strong
Acting like there's nothing wrong
Maybe if you sing this song
You'll come home before too long
Holding On
One hand extended
Reaching out
To the one I befriended
Before it all ended
But on the other hand
I'm holding on
To the edge of the ledge
Of a solemn pledge
To have and to hold
'Til death do us part
And when my blood runs cold
I still will
Hold on
And when I die
They'll have to pry
My lover's sweet melancholy
Sigh
From my cold dead hand
Just the way we'd always planned
So please take a stand and
Don't concede a blood-stained
Inch of Holy Ground
Holding on to the love we've found
Who found us still holding on
To what we've done
Holding one
The NewTen Commandments
(from the APA Ethics Code 2002)
I. The APA Ethics Code is not authoritative:
The Ethics Code is not intended to be a basis of civil liability. Whether a psychologist has violated the Ethics Code standards does not by itself determine whether the psychologist is legally liable in a court action, whether a contract is enforceable, or whether other legal consequences occur.
II. The APA Ethics Code is based on prevailing attitudes and opinions, not facts, logic or reason (note how the term reasonable is defined):
The modifiers used in some of the standards of this Ethics Code (e.g., reasonably, appropriate, potentially) are included in the standards when they would guard against a set of rigid rules that might be quickly outdated. As used in this Ethics Code, the term reasonable means the prevailing professional judgment of psychologists engaged in similar activities in similar circumstances, given the knowledge the psychologist had or should have had at the time.
III. Wheresoever there is conflict between civic laws and APA standards, thou art permitted (but not obligated) to obey civic laws:
If this Ethics Code establishes a higher standard of conduct than is required by law, psychologists must meet the higher ethical standard. If psychologists' ethical responsibilities conflict with law, regulations, or other governing legal authority, psychologists make known their commitment to this Ethics Code and take steps to resolve the conflict in a responsible manner. If the conflict is unresolvable via such means, psychologists may adhere to the requirements of the law, regulations, or other governing authority in keeping with basic principles of human rights.
IV. Go and make disciples of the nations:
Psychologists are committed to increasing scientific and professional knowledge of behavior and people's understanding of themselves and others and to the use of such knowledge to improve the condition of individuals, organizations, and society.
V. Thou shalt serve the APA in diverse ministrations and shalt be my witnesses in the court:
They strive to help the public in developing informed judgments and choices concerning human behavior. In doing so, they perform many roles, such as researcher, educator, diagnostician, therapist, supervisor, consultant, administrator, social interventionist, and expert witness.
VI. Let's not let principles get in the way of ethics!:
General Principles, as opposed to Ethical Standards, are aspirational in nature. Their intent is to guide and inspire psychologists toward the very highest ethical ideals of the profession. General Principles, in contrast to Ethical Standards, do not represent obligations and should not form the basis for imposing sanctions.
VII. Thou shalt serve the APA above any other organization or church:
If the demands of an organization with which psychologists are affiliated or for whom they are working conflict with this Ethics Code, psychologists clarify the nature of the conflict, make known their commitment to the Ethics Code, and to the extent feasible, resolve the conflict in a way that permits adherence to the Ethics Code.
VIII. Thou shalt deceive thy patients:
In situations in which deception may be ethically justifiable to maximize benefits and minimize harm, psychologists have a serious obligation to consider the need for, the possible consequences of, and their responsibility to correct any resulting mistrust or other harmful effects that arise from the use of such techniques.
IX. Thou shalt make life-altering decisions on behalf of persons or communities who lack the ability to make autonomous decisions.
Psychologists are aware that special safeguards may be necessary to protect the rights and welfare of persons or communities whose vulnerabilities impair autonomous decision making.
X. Thou shalt not have any distinction among races, sexes, ages or conditions:
Psychologists are aware of and respect cultural, individual, and role differences, including those based on age, gender, gender identity, race, ethnicity, culture, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, language, and socioeconomic status and consider these factors when working with members of such groups. Psychologists try to eliminate the effect on their work of biases based on those factors, and they do not knowingly participate in or condone activities of others based upon such prejudices.
Bad Chemistry
Love is not the opposite of fear, it is its opposition:
(1 John 4:18) There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.
A phobia is marked by an irrational aversion to something; A compulsion is marked by an irrational attachment to something; Hence, the opposite of fear is addiction; and just as a fear can produce a physiological reaction, so too can an addiction produce chemical reactions in the brain. And just as you wouldn't give a stage performer a butterfly net for the 'butterflies in his stomach,' neither should you give addicts chemical inhibiters for their psychic secretions. The absolute worst thing you could do to a suffering addict is to convince them they are not in ultimate control of their thoughts and behaviors (in order so that you can 'cure them' of it!):
Since the pharmaceuticals don't make any money and they control the doctors. If the doctors don't make any money then all hell breaks loose. In communities like LA and New York they are using a lot of the youth for a test sight.
(Afrika Bambaataa)
Surely, you are aware of Pavlov's theory of conditioned response? Feed a dog while ringing a bell and in a few days, the dogs will salivate at the mere ringing of the bell? But if Pavlov's conclusions were correct, then it would be the bell (and not the saliva) that inspires the response. So then why are we treating the saliva and ignoring the bell? Why are we inhibiting brain chemistry instead of empowering patients to resist temptation?
Two words: job security!
There is no such thing as an illegal person or an illegal substance, but the devil delegitimizes righteous herbs as a means of oppressing the ethnic minorities who are most likely to use them. But if you put a dog in a pen, it still salivates; meanwhile, members of the 'legitimate' race are absolved of their addictions through psychiatric reclassifications of what constitutes a so-called addiction. And what happens to these ethnic minorities in the pen? Are they afforded the latest psychotic medications in order to alleviate the symptoms of their disease?; or does the prison warden turn a blind eye to inmate drug-abuse?:
POP QUIZ: Why would a prison warden tacitly permit his inmates to abuse drugs?
a) A prison full of withdrawal sufferers is more than he can handle.
b) A drug-addicted prison population is easier to control (especially since the threat of isolation means the cutting off of the inmate's drug supply!)
c) The rate of recidivism is so high among drug-users, that the phony war on the same drugs that the U.S. government created guarantees his job security.
d) ALL OF THE ABOVE
Bonus Question: How is it that we give schools an A-thru-F grade under "No-Child-Left-Behind," but we don't rate prisons based on how well they rehabilitate inmates?:
I am a prisoner incarcerated in the Federal Penitentiary in Beaumont, Texas. I have existed for over 14 years within this microcosm of madness, and as I write I look at the tall walls and the gun towers positioned for clear shots to take me and other prisoners out of this existence.
If the world can hear my voice, please forgive me for the iniquities that led me to this living nightmare. I have personally known men who were murdered, left to suffer and die from treatable illnesses that prison authorities refused to treat because to them, prisoners are not even human.
American and world citizens need to be aware that America's prison system monitors itself, and recognize that we have a crisis because there is no accountability for abuse. There is a need for reform of the punitive prison policies which breed lawlessness.
(Donnell Joseph, # 01534-122 US Penitentiary Canaan)
Every Christian is a recovering addict, because the motions of sin are in us; but if a man repents and society continues to punish him, how much more difficult it is for him to embrace the motions of grace and liberty! It is the mandate of the Blessed Virgin Mary that all Christian inmates be released from detention (contingent upon a 'faith-assessment' by a member of the clergy) and that the death penalty be abolished!
Chemical Reactions
There are no evil emotions. Jesus was joyful at the return of the seventy disciples (Luke 10:21); he was livid at King Herod's death threats (Luke 13:31-32), he sweat droplets of blood in Gethsemane (Luke 22:44). Emotions are good and ought not be suppressed; but if you walk into a church and everybody's ear-to-ear smiles, you may be in a cult.
Fear is not an emotion; it is the inversion of all emotion. With fear, righteous joy becomes pride; righteous pathos becomes depression; righteous rage becomes wrath. Yet we can be angry, sad or cheery in love -- and should!
It is impossible to be moodless. Mood provides a necessary spiritual aperture through which reality is perceived. Without mood, you would not be able to look up a quote on thinkexist.com because you would neither think nor exist!
Just as hunger releases saliva in Pavlov's dogs; emotions release brain chemicals in us. These chemicals impact physiology and childhood development. Happy children grow up with a certain look; passionate children grow into a certain shape; firebrands like myself have a unique physical appearance. When your mother told you not to frown because your face would stick that way, she was absolutely right! Homosexual children also have a distinct physical appearance precisely for this reason, while adults who 'become' homosexuals post-puberty lack the appearance.
It is not the saliva making the dog hungry, but rather it is the hunger that produces the saliva. Likewise, it is not the chemical imbalance that produces the behavior; but men, choosing a certain direction (perhaps from infancy!) induce these biological and metabolic changes which result in an entirely different physical appearance than that which they otherwise would have had were it not for their precursory choice:
(Ps 51:5,7) Behold, I was shapen in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me. 7Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
Walk into any church, and you can tell at a glance who converted before puberty and who converted after. Now walk into any gay nightclub, and see if you can tell who is gay from childhood and who just walked in to use the phone because their car just broke down outside!
Lesbians also have a certain 'butch' appearance commensurate with a lifetime of sin, but Christian women have a glow and a synergy that exude more grace than a thousand NIVs:
(Ro 1:26) For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
No one disputes that certain hormonal imbalances can be linked to emotions and behaviors, but where modern psychiatry errs is in its insistence that biochemistry is the cause (and not the consequent) of these same emotions and behaviors!:
POP QUIZ: Why would psychiatrists blame hunger on saliva?
A. Because blaming ones actions on chemical imbalances absolves (or perhaps dissolves!) the patient of any sense of guilt or shame associated with the behavior.
B. If chemical secretions produce thoughts and desires, the only treatment for insanity would be pharmaceutic (and psychiatric research is bankrolled by drug companies).
C. All psychiatrists are themselves silent sufferers of their own repressed need to dominate others, and convincing their patients that they are at the whim of biochemicals feeds into that deepseated megalomania
D. You guessed it! -- ALL OF THE ABOVE
We are practicing reverse psychiatry!! It is no wonder that our children have been riddled with Ritalin! Psychiatry, like any other money-making enterprise, is in the business of selling people things they don't need, don't want, and didn't ask for! -- and the perpetuation of a paradigm of helplessness has only served to further aggrandize the Psychological-Industrial Complex!
But then again, maybe you are just the product of chemical brain reactions? Maybe you're not ultimately responsible and accountable for who you are and what you think about? Maybe no one is? -- and so all of our addictions, compulsions and obsessions are nothing more than evolutionary buy-products?:
It is the reward pathway that governs our instinctual drives, and when this pathway malfunctions, any number of instinctual drives may also malfunction. We now know that this malfunctioning process has been associated not only with drug addiction, but also food addiction, sex addiction, and a number of other compulsive disorders including attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder. Individuals who are predisposed to becoming addicted have been shown to have a variant gene that causes this reward cascade to malfunction
While it would be absurd to assert that other diseases of the brain such as schizophrenia or depression are due to weak will or moral character, it is still the prevailing opinion of many, including healthcare professionals, that drug addiction is about improper choices rather than improper brain function. Current scientific evidence has revealed that chemical addiction is a process that is caused by a malfunctioning cascade of neurotransmitters which is further exacerbated by drug use.
(APhA 2001 -- American Pharmaceutical Association 148th Annual Meeting: Therapeutic Updates)
This World is Hell!
"This world is hell!"
Can't you tell?
From the sulfuric smell
Of the flaming well
In which Satan fell
As his demons yell
Clear as a bell
For the flawed Intel
On the terrorist cell
In a Jersey motel
As the profits foretell
When the rockets propel
In the streets of Israel
Raining deadly shrapnel
On the graduates of Citadel
Hunted like the infidel
Is the tale we must retell
As the Archangel Gabriel
From his Paradisaic stelle
On the Eve of Noël
Cries out 'Gloria in Excel --
"This world was hell!"
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LORD JESUS CHRIST,SON OF THE FATHER,SEND NOW YOUR SPIRIT OVER THE EARTH.LET THE HOLY SPIRIT LIVEIN THE HEARTS OF ALL NATIONS,THAT THEY MAY BE PRESERVEDFROM DEGENERATION, DISASTER AND WAR.MAY THE LADY OF ALL NATIONS,WHO ONCE WAS MARY,BE OUR ADVOCATE.AMEN.
LORD JESUS CHRIST,
SON OF THE FATHER,
SEND NOW YOUR SPIRIT OVER THE EARTH.
LET THE HOLY SPIRIT LIVE
IN THE HEARTS OF ALL NATIONS,
THAT THEY MAY BE PRESERVED
FROM DEGENERATION, DISASTER AND WAR.
MAY THE LADY OF ALL NATIONS,
WHO ONCE WAS MARY,
BE OUR ADVOCATE.
AMEN.
